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From Greek islands to Plainview ice cream runs: Inside a Rochester couple's active 70s

Dean and Julie Stenehjem travel, garden, volunteer, and keep learning new things. And they have tandem-biked all over the world.

The new (chain) restaurants you want ...

Every city has a chain restaurant it can't stop talking about. For Rochester, it's a surprisingly long list—from White Castle sliders and IHOP pancakes to Raising Cane's sauce and Cheesecake Factory...

2,500 (or so) questions, 2,500 (or so) answers

Columnist Steve Lange looks back over 250 "10 (Or So) Question" columns.

Vote now in Rochester Magazine's Best Restaurants contest

Where are the best bites in Rochester? You tell us! Vote for your favorites in the Best Restaurants contest now.

Three Ways You Can Help: SEMCIL

Today, SEMCIL continues to put people with disabilities at the center of decisions about their lives.

'Guy, I need you here. It’s all been for a reason'

Columnist Steve Lange talks to Guy Finne, director of community and strategic partnerships with PossAbilities.

Seven of the city's best breakfast places

Turns out Rochesterites—and Rochester restaurants—don’t play around when it comes to breakfast. We’re talking eggs by the thousands, pancakes (and Pannekoekens) by the stack, and enough hash browns...

Feast! Meet the makers

Sample it all at Rochester's food fest.

The language of hiking

Columnist Steve Lange just got back from five days backpacking in the Porcupine Mountains where, oftentimes, the only sounds are footsteps.

Random Rochesterite: Dayanna Elizondo

Meet Dayanna Elizondo, a Mayo High junior, Ollin hostess and future cosmetologist with big plans to bring her own beauty business to Mexico someday.

Michael York: 'I have not lost anything. In fact, I think I’ve gained'

In 2022, actor Michael York—oh, you know him from something—and his wife Pat sold their $7M house in Hollywood Hills, and their extensive art collection, and, well, even the plaque Michael received...

The Last Alarm

On Christmas Eve of 1953, a 9-year-old boy fell through the ice at Silver Lake. The rescuers didn't hesitate. Columnist Steve Lange tells the story.

Rochester Magazine's Best Restaurants Contest